My Journey: Why I Started Keto30days
How Changing What I Eat Changed Everything
For years I felt absolutely terrible, and the most frustrating part was that nobody could tell me why.
– Really low energy.
– Constant bloating and pain in my stomach and lower gut.
– A sore lower back that just would not let up no matter what I tried.
– Migraines that would take me out for the day. (I later figured out that these were coming from the inflammation in my neck and back!)
– Fatigue that was completely relentless, the kind where no amount of sleep ever made a difference. I was having to use the bathroom three or four times every single day.
– And then there were the energy crashes! My body would just switch off… I could feel myself start to shut down, and it didn’t matter what I was doing or where I was, I just had to sleep.
The thing that made it all so hard to accept was that underneath it all I’m a naturally energetic person. I like to be on the go. I’ve always been someone who wants to be surfing, working with my hands, keeping busy and getting things done. Feeling that way, like my body was constantly working against me, just wasn’t who I was.
It wasn’t who I wanted to be either.
So like we all do, I went to the doctor. Then I went again, and again. Years worth of blood tests, inflammation markers, hormone levels, iron, parasites, the works. Every single time the results came back “normal”. Most of the time the doc would say I was in perfect health, nothing to see here, off you go. But one doctor tried to convince me to go on anti-depressants because I was depressed!
I spent years going through this cycle, feeling genuinely awful every day, and being told on paper that I was completely fine. If you’ve ever been through something like that you’ll know how demoralising it is. You really start to wonder if it’s all in your head.
I should also be honest about what my diet actually looked like before all of this. I had a serious sweet tooth. Without realizing it, I had mega sugar cravings. I would always want to stop with the kids for an ice-cream, or grab one by myself, it didn’t take much of an excuse. Many times I would buy a box of 4 from the supermarket and eat them all on the 30 minute drive home!
I never really thought of it as a problem, it was just what I did. Looking back now I can see exactly what it was doing to me, but at the time it seemed completely normal.
Seeing all this through my current lens, I think I can trace the whole thing back to a really bad bout of food poisoning I got about fifteen years ago. Before that happened I honestly don’t remember having any of these problems. Something shifted in my gut after that and I spent the best part of a decade and a half dealing with the fallout without really understanding what was going on.
The thing that changed everything for me wasn’t a doctor, a specialist, or some fancy new medication. It was actually my girlfriend.
Long before we met she had been diagnosed with a serious autoimmune disease. At that time, back in the very earliest days of the internet, her dad just refused to accept that medication was the only answer. He spent months digging through everything he could find, researching dietary protocols and painstakingly piecing together an approach that he believed could help her. It worked. She turned her health around completely through food alone.
No drugs, no surgery, just a clear understanding of what her body needed and what it didn’t.
When she saw what I was going through every day she showed me the protocols she had followed. I’ll be honest, I was pretty sceptical at first. I’d tried cutting things out here and there over the years without much success, and the idea that food alone could fix what years of medical testing hadn’t even been able to identify felt like a bit of a stretch.
But at that point I was desperate enough to give it a proper shot.
So I went all in. I cut out all starch, sugar and lactose.
Basically I started eating eggs, meat, and vegetables, and not a whole lot else. No bread, no pasta, no rice, no potatoes, no dairy, no packaged anything. And yes, that meant no ice-cream!
I won’t pretend the first couple of weeks were easy, because they weren’t. The sugar cravings in those early days were fairly intense.
But honestly it didn’t take long before they were completely gone.
I stuck to my guns and somewhere around the end of the first month everything started to shift. The sugar cravings just disappeared, completely gone. I stopped in town with the kids one afternoon and it occurred to me that I hadn’t even thought about the ice cream fridge. For someone who had spent years driven by that constant pull towards something sweet, that felt like nothing short of a miracle.
The bloating settled down, and the fatigue that had followed me around for years began to lift. The crashes stopped happening and my energy levels returned. My back pain eased off in a way it never had before. I started waking up in the morning feeling like an actual human being rather than someone who had been hit by a truck overnight!
While I was never into being gym junkie, I’ve always been active and I liked to think I was doing alright fitness-wise. But as the inflammation subsided, I actually lost a lot of weight. I stopped looking puffy and feeling bloated. My body looked and felt lean and healthy. It was something I didn’t really expect, and it was great.
Now after more than two years of eating this way the difference in how I feel is honestly hard to put into words.
You might be sitting there thinking: “No, that’s not gonna happen, I don’t have the time or energy to overhaul the way I eat.”
Let me say right now that I know just how you feel. I thought exactly the same thing, and I was actually pretty resistant to it when I first got going.
I’m a single dad with two kids. I work for a small company, run a couple of small businesses where it’s just me, one of which involves keeping a lot of beehives, and I also play drums in several bands every weekend.
I love surfing and I try to get in the water whenever I possibly can, and I’m also constantly fixing my old house that seems to be held together with optimism more than anything else at this point.
What I’m trying to say is that my life is genuinely full, and I just don’t have the time to be precious about food, shop for exotic ingredients that are hard to find, or spend hours in the kitchen following complicated recipes.
I’m also not an amazing cook. Sure I can cook fine, but to be honest I’ve never really cared that much about it.
It’s just something I’ve had to do so that myself and my kids can eat.
I have an old, small and very basic kitchen, and my whole cooking outlook is to keep It as simple as I can.
And yet here I am, two years in, eating this way every day without it taking over my life.
All this is to say that if I can do it, I genuinely believe anyone can. You don’t need to be a foodie, you don’t need loads of spare time. you don’t need to be obsessed with health and wellness.
You just need to know what to eat and have a simple plan to follow.
That’s exactly why I built Keto30Days.
I’m not a doctor. I’m not a nutritionist or a dietitian. I’m a regular person who stumbled onto something that genuinely changed my life and I wanted to share it in a way that’s actually useful to someone at the beginning of their journey. I don’t like jargon, gimmicks, or the hard sell. I like honest info, simple meal plans, and the kind of straight talking guidance I wish someone had given me when I was starting out.
If any part of my story sounds like yours, I’m really glad you found this place! You’re in exactly the right spot.
Pete
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